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Alexander Woollcott: At 83 Shaw's...

Alexander Woollcott: At 83 Shaw's...

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone...

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Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want...

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Orson Scott Card: Your work is...

Orson Scott Card: Your work is...

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is...

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Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

Source:
-- Madeleine L'Engle,...

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John Steinbeck: It is a...

John Steinbeck: It is a...

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep...

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John Steinbeck: I hold that...

John Steinbeck: I hold that...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any...

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Don Delillo: I think it's...

Don Delillo: I think it's...

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two...

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Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest --blank; and the...

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Sir Walter Besant: Youth is a...

Sir Walter Besant: Youth is a...

Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.

Source: In...

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Jean Paul: Cares are often...

Jean Paul: Cares are often...

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former...

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P G Wodehouse: Memories are like...

P G Wodehouse: Memories are like...

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

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Christopher Morley: God made man...

Christopher Morley: God made man...

God made man merely to hear some praise
Of what he'd done on those Five Days.


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Alex Haley: I acknowledge immense...

Alex Haley: I acknowledge immense...

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa -- where today it is rightly said that when a griot...

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Alex Haley: My fondest hope...

Alex Haley: My fondest hope...

My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. ...

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Christopher Morley: In every man's...

Christopher Morley: In every man's...

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

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Christopher Morley: Any man worth...

Christopher Morley: Any man worth...

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to...

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Herman Wouk: Income tax returns:...

Herman Wouk: Income tax returns:...

Income tax returns: the most imaginative fiction written today.

Source: In 1,911...

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Shirley Hazzard: [C]hronological prestige is...

Shirley Hazzard: [C]hronological prestige is...

[C]hronological prestige is tenacious: once attained, it can't be shed; it increased moment by moment, day by day,...

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Don Delillo: Californians invented the...

Don Delillo: Californians invented the...

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

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Lawrence Durrell: Journeys, like artists,...

Lawrence Durrell: Journeys, like artists,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them...

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